Social bookmarking buttons: are they worth it?

On many of my blogs, I have the social bookmarking buttons beneath each blogpost. They allow visitors to easily publish a link to the post they are reading, onto Facebook, Twitter, and a variety of other social media sites. As a user, I don’t use those buttons often, and I always wondered if other people [...]

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The EU directive on web cookies:
a privacy warning too far?

This warning popped up today, while surfing the website of a large international nonprofit. It was the first time I ran across a oblivious warning like that.

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A New Delicious, a New Problem.

In the past days, Delicious, the widely popular bookmarking site, changed their ehmm, how should I call it: their “website”, their user interface? If it were only the user-interface, I’d be happy, but some of the functionality changed too… Yet another example of “If you seriously engage in social media, you can’t keep it as [...]

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Google moving towards a monopoly?

A few weeks ago, I reported on the new Blogger user interface, a definitive step forward. But now, Google takes a couple of steps back in my esteem. I just downloaded the newest version of Opera, one of the browsers I use for web development. And guess what? When using Blogger with Opera, an error [...]

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Wanted: social media volunteers for a good cause

Water scarcity is one of the most pressing issues facing humanity today. Today, more than 20 percent of the world’s rivers run dry before reaching the sea. This is an upcoming disaster for the world’s agriculture, specifically in developing countries where 70-90% of the available water is used to grow food. More than 1.4 billion [...]

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How to secure WordPress timthumb.php

If you have a selfhosted WordPress blog (WordPress.org), take urgent measures to secure your site from a recently discovered vulnerability. Many WordPress themes and plug-ins use a script called “timthumb” (timthumb.php). This is the most common code used to create thumbnails from pictures. End July, a vulnerability surfaced showing external users could dump malicious code [...]

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Blogger: New user interface and mobile themes

Well, Blogger catches on! They just announced a brand new user interface. The last significant upgrade of Blogger was way back in 2007. Even though they added a new template designer and added a new preview function just one year ago, the basic user interface remained unchanged and archaic. Not so with the latest changes. [...]

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The Social Media Revolution

 From time to time, those of us working in social media, still have to convince people on the reach and use of it all. So, here is another infographics/infomercial video. Always good at the beginning of a presentation. Video is based on the book “Socialnomics” by Erik Qualman (Discovered via @gaurisalokhe and @rsamii)

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The difference between social media “Reach” and “Impact”

At home, I step onto my balcony, overlooking the street. I start shouting into a megaphone about the importance of farmers in the developing world, the effects of climate change on them, and the role of their produce in the food chain. And how we have to stop the marsh of the Monsanto and Cargill [...]

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The World of Social Media in 2011

If you ever need to give a presentation on the reach of the most prominent social media tools… Video courtesy Omobono

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Beware of social media experts

Now that social media is reaching its popularity peak, the market is flooded with so-called “experts” and “guru’s”. I always wondered why people would call themself “expert” or “guru”.. I played with social media since 2006. For the past two years, much of my work involved social media. For the past year, I have done [...]

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